How has Bemani changed your life?

SulferDragon · 04-13-2007, 09:30 PM

Well, for those of us hooked on Bemani games, and Bemani music I'm sure that Bemani, at one point or another, altered the course of your life.

How has it changed mine?

Yes, I remeber back two and half years ago when I was first introduced to Bemani from a DDREX machine at my local arcade. Wow, the first time I played it... oh... ahhh.... yeessss... So, in long, I played it all the time. I got hooked. It kept me busy, and gave me some beefy muscles! Without it I would probably be sitting in front of the TV playing games like my brother. Instead I'm a healthy 16 year old who is always active.

HOWevER! That was only step one. After a while I heard of some weird program that would let you make your own steps to a song, but I never gave it much thought. At the time I was happy with what I had. Time passed, I forgot about it... until a fateful trip to Reno, NV. Yeah, that trip was a blast for more then one reason. Well, we decided to stop by the Atlantis for their buffet the second day we were there. That buffet rocked! Afterwards we figured we'd stop by the arcade while we were there. They had a nice arcade. They had a DDR machine, we were happy, but they also had another machine right across from it. "Stepmania Projekt Blue." We were just like, "we're not playing that, it looks like some stupid rip off of DDR." So we just played DDR, but my mom decided to play it. My brother was watching here while I was dancing on the DDR machine, and while he was watching her... he saw... a The Black Mages song!!! He went, "Ahhhhuhhuhhh..." He then played it, but I was like, "It still looks like some stupid rip of DDR, I ain't playing it." I watched him that round, and decided to try it... Thank God I did. I imeadiately fell in love with it, as we played it at least ten times over, and over. It was truely awesome. Katamari on the Rocks was on it, oh boy!! I think remember the machine saying it was powered by Bemanistyle.com.

So, yeah... Time passed, but I still never got it. Until one day I just downloaded it, and then found Bemanistyle. As you can tell by my join date it hasn't been to long. The day I got Stepmania is the day I joined here. Haha, look at me now. I spend waaayyyy to much time on the computer, and I'm here talking to you. If it wasn't for me getting into DDR back when I wouldn't be here.

Bemani has also influenced the music I listen to. When I first started playing Guitar Freaks (again) I saw someone play this song called Black Sheep. Though I had heard metal before I only thought it was all right. When I heard that I instantly thought metal was awesome! Funny thing is that Sonata Arctica isn't one of my most favorite bands, but Black Sheep is definitely one of my favorite metal songs to this day.

Blah, share stories plz ppl.

Koop · 04-13-2007, 09:47 PM

I became homosexual for Asaki.

+ my art went straighter.

MUSCLES · 04-14-2007, 04:47 PM

DDR: I was fat. Like full blown overweight. Then we got me off of this horrible medicine that destroyed my metabolism. I started playing DDR and I literally went from obese to a twig in a month or two. It kept my weight down and kept my literally INFATUATED with this game. It was MY stomping ground, after a while, no one <i>I</i> knew was better than me. It made me feel accomplished and gave me back a lot of self confidence. It also FORCED me to listen to music, and now look at me, I'm dropping $1,200.00 for a DJ setup** soon XD
So really, DDR kinda destroyed my life my stealing my moneys XD

**GET IT??!?!?!

IIDX: Well, IIDX gave me piano skills. I'm now able to play a mad drum machine and scale better on pianos. I also had some sick ass long versions and remixes to spin at raves (I'm looking at you, Mei, SigSig, teranoid, and JAEGER).
Also, at AZ's Animecon, someone came up to me and honestly said this:

Guy, "Hey, do you go by paradovincent?"
Me, "Yea, I do."
Guy, "Oh, so you're like the <i>BEMANI King</i>."
Me, "Umm... Yea, I guess!"

GFDM: Taught me how to drum. No shit. And provided me with some awesome times at MSG (our arcade).

Pop'N: That bitch never did anything for me. All she ever did was introduce me to her friends. I guess they're pretty cool :\

iconoclasm · 04-15-2007, 11:20 AM

change all my music...

people says to me... how can you listen to tracks with 2.00 minutes max

well, thats the magic of bemani music...

i could listen to new genres Ive never heard in my life... it expands my musical taste... for the best, I hope...

***red shoe paul*** · 04-16-2007, 12:17 AM

Forwarded to Polls & Questions.

t7r · 04-16-2007, 05:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Koop

I became homosexual for Asaki.

Me too.

With playing DDR, I ended up developing a habit of tapping anywhere with the rhythm of the steps, for example, Healing-D-Vision. I tap its Heavy chart with my hands/ fingers on anything, even my thighs, which almost everyone in my family thanks it's irritating. Personally, I find it irritating.

The same thing also happened when I also played DrumMania. I tapped TAMAYURA's Extreme chart everywhere.

Playing Bemani really stops me from going to a certain KOF-related forums which has a huge 4chan influence. I was being bullied there almost all the time, and hooking up to something else that isn't KOF relieves me of my online pain and suffering.

Too much Bemani led me to putting Bemani songs on my iPod, having about 200+ of them in my 2GB iPod Nano and a play count of the short version of Tsuminagara...to kanojo waifu with nearly 1700. (not a typo like egde dogs)

Valex · 04-16-2007, 07:33 PM

I came here, didn't I

Morning Blue · 04-19-2007, 05:57 AM

It made me analyze video game music to geeky new heights. Seriously.

Akkaraju · 04-22-2007, 03:39 AM

I guess it got me into a nice series of games, and meet a few people online here.

While it didn't signifigantly change my life or anything, it did make me signifigantly poorer and gave me the feeling of lack of boredom. I guess that's always a good thing.

Well, I guess I didn't really listen to much techno and related music before I got into bemani, either.

mono-type · 04-25-2007, 09:12 AM

* It has made me more musically-sensitive. I can tell if a song was off the beat or not.

*It has diversified and changed my musical preferences a lot.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tsugaru7reveng

With playing DDR, I ended up developing a habit of tapping anywhere with the rhythm of the steps, for example, Healing-D-Vision. I tap its Heavy chart with my hands/ fingers on anything, even my thighs, which almost everyone in my family thinks it's irritating. Personally, I find it irritating.

LOL you are quite similar with my younger bro; he also doing that tapping thing. In fact, that was one of his pastimes, especially while listening to music.